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#058: Steven Pressfield — The War of Art, Battling Resistance, Having A Creative Calling, Writing Memoir

London Writers' Salon

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The 10 Components to a Full Cap

The first question I always ask is, what's the genre. Is this a love story? Is this a Western? Is this science fiction? Is it two genres combined? So if I know the genre, I've already got a kind of a big roadmap of what the story would be. Number two for me is hero and villain, right? If we're writing Moby Dick, ah, it's Captain Ahab, and it's the White Whale. And then there are other kind of rules of, or the third one that I always, if we're going to pick the most important is, how does it end? What's the climax?

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